Sand Creek massacre

battle_name=Sand Creek massacre

Depiction in fiction

The Sand Creek Massacre is the subject of the 1970 movie Soldier Blue, and the massacre in Little Big Man is also based on it.

Related Topics:
1970 - Soldier Blue - Little Big Man

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The Italian songwriter Frizio De André wrote a song about the massacre, intitled "Fiume Sand Creek".

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The massacre is also portrayed in Steven Spielberg's mini-series Into the West (miniseries).

Related Topics:
Steven Spielberg - Into the West (miniseries)

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The American novelist James Michener included a fictionalized account of the massacre and its aftermath in his book Centennial, moving the incident further north, near the South Platte River, and making the victims primarily Arapaho.

Related Topics:
James Michener - Centennial - South Platte River - Arapaho

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Countless books in Native American literature make allusion to and take inspiration from the Sand Creek Massacre.

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